Kesher Talk

Welsh synagogue smashed: A Welsh synagogue was desecrated and spray-painted with a swastika was in what the BBC Saturday morning called 'a suspected racist attack'. According to the BBC report, The Hebrew Congregation building at Swansea was vandalized, its windows were smashed, prayer books were destroyed, and torah scrolls, including a 300-year-old scroll, were torn to shreds. The attack, Thursday night, came following the vandalization of a synagogue in north London a few weeks previously.

The Independent reports, ""T4 Jewish C**ts from Hitler," was daubed on the wall – an apparent reference to the Nazis' T-4 euthanasia programme, which was responsible for the deaths of thousands of disabled people during the Second World War."

The paper also notes that "a community education project, set up by the synagogue to explain Jewish life to local schoolchildren, was destroyed."

posted by Howard @ 7/15/2002 12:17:39 PM